Jewelry-exhibitor.



No. 635,7". Patented Oct. 24, I899.

C. H. BUXTON.

JEWELRY EXHIBITOR.

\ (Application filed July 5, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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ATENT CHARLES H. BUXTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASS IGNOR TO THE DENNISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

JEWELRY-EXHIBITOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,711, dated October 24, 1899.

Application filed July 5, 1899. Serial No. 722,894. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BUXTON, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Jewelry-Exhibitors, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to a device which I shall term, for convenience, a ring-exhibitor, although, as' will hereinafter appear, it may be employed to equal advantage for displaying many other articles of jewelry; and the object of the invention is to provide asimple device of the character specified which can be made at a low cost and involving means to support a ring, breastpin, or such an object that the setting or jewel of the same can be seen to its best advantage.

The invention in the embodiment thereof shown includes a body portion having two surfaces, between which the body of the ring may be held, and a support for holding the body portion, and while these parts may be of any suitable material I prefer to make the body portion and its support of light paper, and the surfaces to which I have referred are preferably upon pads generally made of textile material and connected to the body portion. The body portion is generally disposed at such an angle that when a ring is forced between the holding-surfaces connected to the same the jewel or setting of the ring will be presented directly in front of the eye, where in the case of certain stones the best points of the same can be more readily appreciated, and the body portion is upheld in its angular position by a leg or prop connected to the back thereof.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a ring-exhibitor, showing the same in the preferred embodiment thereof. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section of the same.

The ring-exhibitor in the form thereof herein illustrated includes in its construction a body portion represented as asubstantia-lly rectangular card B,of paper,adapted when the card is in use to be disposed at a convenient angle and to be maintained in such a position by a prop or. leg, as L, suitably connected to the card B. The card B is shown consist openings or slots 7 and 8.

ing of two sheets or thicknesses of substantially the same size and glued or otherwise secured together, and they have at convenient points in their heights the rectangular The slot 8 in the part 6 is somewhat larger than the slot 7 in the other part and is adapted to receive the open end of the paper box 9, which box is held in place with its edge against the rear face of the flap and the part 5 by glue or otherwise. The leg or prop L is also formed from paper, and consists of a strip of proper length, one end thereof being bent at an angle to its major portion, as at 10, and inserted between the plies 5 and 6 under the box 9.

While the parts previously described are made from paper-board by reason of its cheapness and simplicity in handling and lightness, it is obvious, of course, that they can be made from other material.

A ring, as R, in the present case is held between soft or yieldable members, as the superposed pads 12, which are glued at their ends and upon their upper and lower faces, respectively, to the inner walls of the box to hold the same in place, and these pads may be of any suitable material capable of holding a ring between them and to permit of its ready insertion and removal.

When the exhibitor is set up in a showwindow, the card B will be disposed at such an angle that the jewel or setting of the ring R will be directly in line with the eye and the card will be held in such position by the angular swinging leg L, the swinging of the leg permitting of a certain amount of angular adjustment of the card B to adapt the de vice to different conditions.

The device hereinbefore described possesses the utility of displaying a ring to its best advantage, many expedient-s for which have been adopted by jewelers, but none of the latter succeed in setting the stone immediately in front of an observer.

The box 9, which contains the ring-holding portions 12 12, is disposed behind the card B, so as to be out of the way.

The face of the card can be utilized to contain a description of the jewel or ring displayed, the price-mark, the jewelers name, and other information or advertisements.

The casing that receives and holds the back of the article displayed is smaller in area than the face of the display-card, for example, as shown in the drawings, whereby in the ordinary position of the device in a show window or case the general efiect of the device when viewed by the intending purchaser is the effect merely of a display-card and not the more bulky effect of a box or casing, which latter effect would be produced were the sides of the casing or box carried around the card at the periphery of the latter, as is the case with a tray or its equivalent. Furthermore, the box or casin g gives opportunity for the use of the soft or yielding members or pads 12, which being ordinarily formed from colored material presents an attractive background for the display of the face of the ring and the jewel usually arranged therein.

The lug or supporting member L in the embodiment of the invention here shown is arranged under the casing, which latter thereby constitutes a stop to prevent the card from tipping over backward by the rearward sliding of the supporting member.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A jewelry-exhibitor comprising a dis play-card provided with an opening to receive the article to be displayed, a casing much smaller than the said card and arranged at the back of and carried by said card merely to hold the article the face of which is displayed through said opening at the face of said card, and a supporting member to support said card in elevated display position whereby the general effect of the device as or dinarily viewed by an intending purchaser is that of a displaycard.

2. A jewelry-exhibitor comprising a display-card provided with an opening to receive the article to be displayed and larger than the portion of such article that is to be displayed through said opening, a casing smaller than said card and arranged at the back of and carried by the latter and containing pads that are exposed at and through said opening and receive between them said article to be dis played, and a support for and to retain said display-card in elevated position, the whole producing the general effect of a display-card.

3. A jewelry-exhibitor comprising a dis play-card provided with an opening to receive the article to be displayed, a casing much smaller than the said card and arranged at the back of and carried by said card merely to hold the article the face of which is displayed through said opening at the face of said card, and a supporting member hinged to the said display-card immediately below the said casing to hold the said card in elevated position, said casing serving as a stop for the said supporting member, as described.

at. A ring-exhibitor comprising a card in two thicknesses each slotted, the slot of the rear one being larger than that of the forward one, a casing disposed in said larger slot and secured to the back of the front thickness and having ring-holding means, and a leg connected with said card forswinging movement.

5. A ring-exhibitor comprising a card in two thicknesses each slotted the slot of the rear one being larger than that of the forward one, a casing disposed in said larger slot and secured to the back of the front thickness and having ring-holding means, and a leg having a turned-over portion secured between said thicknesses.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES H. BUXTON.

\Vitnesses:

ARTHUR 'l. REED, SIDNEY B. THOMAS. 

